Church News for the week beginning 10th December 2023

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OUR SERMON

This Sunday we’re going to hear the third talk from the series called ‘The Message of the King’ as Jodie McNeill preaches to us from Malachi 2:17-3:15 on the topic, ‘Return to the King.’

We’ll also be having a special farewell for Jacob and Jemimah Mierendorff during both of the services.

CHURCHILL CAROLS

Join us on Christmas Eve for our Churchill Carols on the church lawn. 5pm free sausage sizzle, 6pm all-age carols service, and 7pm summer supper. Keep the evening free for a great night for all!

JAMBEROO COMMUNITY CAROLS

You’re invited to join with the community of Jamberoo on Tuesday 12th December at 6:30-8:30pm at Reid Park. Bring a rug, picnic dinner, and an enthusiasm to share Jesus with Jamberoo and beyond! Sausage sizzle starts at 5:30pm, so come early for a feed!

CMS SUMMER SCHOOL 2024

Join thousands of other mission-minded Christians for a great week of Bible teaching and encouragement in Katoomba from 6-12 January 2024. Register at nswsummerschool.org.au

TOYS AND TUCKER

Together, we can share the joy with thousands of families this Christmas through Anglicare’s Toys n’ Tucker appeal. Simply visit toysntucker.org.au to provide food and gifts for those who would otherwise go without this Christmas.

SUMMER CAMPING AT BURRILL PINES

Join your church friends for a relaxed camping trip at Burrill Pines (near Ulladulla) on the third weekend of 20-21st January and the days before and after as you’re able. Speak to Adrian Nette 0414 193 945 for more details.

MORNING PRAYER

Join us at 7am every day (except Sunday) at zoom.jamberooanglican.com as we gather to read the Bible, pray, and encourage each other as the new day dawns.

DECEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH

Our book of the month is ‘’The Dawn of Redeeming Grace’ by Sinclair Ferguson. Physical copies are available at our bookstall.

GIVING UPDATE

Each week we need to receive $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. For last month, our average weekly giving was $5402.00, leaving a gap of $898.00. Up to the end of last month, we needed to have received $81,900. Compared to that total we received $71,624, leaving a gap of $10,276.

Electronic giving is a great way to give! It helps us prayerfully plan our giving, and then the bank will help us keep that commitment, even when we may be unable to attend. To give by direct transfer then these are the details. Account name: Jamberoo Anglican Church. Account number: 356831. BSB: 032605.

Dying To Depart

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Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) is now legal in New South Wales, and as Christians, this is something that challenges us on many fronts, as we seek to offer wise pastoral care to others, and also to obey and honour God and his word.

Some people encourage VAD because they say it avoids the pain of terminal illness, despite advancements in medicine that provide excellent pain relief and palliative care.

Others seek VAD because they don’t want others burdened as they go through a difficult illness, even though this can easily lead to other older people pursuing early death to help relieve others from the need to provide them with care.

Whilst those who have prepared the legislation say VAD is different to suicide, God says in the Bible that taking any life is wrong, even when a person is already close to death.

Yet, the greatest problem with voluntary assisted dying is that it leads a person to take their life into their own hands, rather than waiting for God to act.

This is sad for many others, especially family members and other professionals who feel the confusion and pain of being asked to help a person hasten their death, even though their conscience may be against this.

Despite having the responsibility to protect vulnerable people from feeling pressure to take their lives, this new law will impact our society in ways that will weaken trust, and lead to the deaths of the very people we’re called by God to protect.

Yet, in all of this, we know that there is hope in the Lord Jesus, and that no matter what the sufferings people might be experiencing, they are nothing compared with the glory God will reveal to us later (Romans 8:18.)

JODIE McNEILL

Coming up this Sunday 10th December 2023

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This Sunday we are going to be hearing from God’s word as Jodie McNeill continues our series on Malachi called ‘The Message of the King,’ as he looks at Malachi 2:17-3:15 the title, ‘Return to the King.’

During our Sunday services we’ll also be having a special celebration and farewell for Jacob and Jemimah Mierendorff (although they’re still with us till Christmas Day.)

After our 9 am service we’ll be enjoying brunch together, and after our 4 pm service we’ll be having dinner.

We’d love you to join us in-person if you’re able, or watch our livestream at watch.jamberooanglican.com.

Here are the questions you’ve asked that Jodie plans to answer during church this Sunday:

1 Do Roman Catholics have more books of the Bible than us?
2 Will people who attend non-Anglican churches be saved?
3 What does being fearful of God look like?
4 If a leader has led others to stumble, should they stop leading?
5 How do we not show favouritism to the poor?
6 Did Solomon literally have hundreds of wives?
7 If the Holy Spirit was hovering over the waters (Genesis 1:2) when did God create the sea?
8 How can Christ live in us (Colossians 3:11) when the Holy Spirit is already in us?
9 Can we trust the Bible if it appears to have errors and is hard to translate?
10 Was there Christmas before Jesus was born?

Sorry that we weren’t able to fit in all the questions this week, but if you have one you’d like answered, then email us and we’ll put it on the list for future weeks.

See you on Sunday, God willing!

The Message of the King – 2: Be Faithful to the King – Malachi 2:1-16 • Jodie McNeill

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Churning

The most important faithfulness is to ___

We’ve all been __________

Priests were __-________ for God and his people

Many priests weren’t _________ God’s name

God’s _____ must not be undermined

God punished the priest’s ___________

God covered the priests in ________

God punished the priests to ____ them

God offered life and _____

God’s word is _______

Truth tellers need to tell the _____

We have a high ________ for leaders

Right ________ needs right living

God _______ the priests because they shamed his name

They disobeyed God by showing ___________

They’re all _____ in God’s sight

Before Jesus, only ______ was saved

Wives following foreign _____ lead leaders astray

They weren’t faithful to their _____

We must _____ our hearts

God hates _______, and so should we

There is ____ because God sent Jesus

Church News for the week beginning 3rd December 2023

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OUR SERMON

This Sunday we’re going to hear the second talk from the series called ‘The Message of the King’ as Jodie McNeill preaches to us from Malachi Chapter Two on the topic, ‘Be Faithful to the King.’ We’ll also be hearing a report from Jack Vidilini about his experiences this year with Year 13.

CHURCHILL CAROLS

Join us on Christmas Eve for our Churchill Carols on the church lawn. 5pm free sausage sizzle, 6pm all-age carols service, and 7pm summer supper. Keep the evening free for a great night for all!

JAMBEROO COMMUNITY CAROLS

You’re invited to join with the community of Jamberoo on Tuesday 12th December at 6:30-8:30pm at Reid Park. Bring a rug, picnic dinner, and an enthusiasm to share Jesus with Jamberoo and beyond! Sausage sizzle starts at 5pm, so come early for a feed!

CMS SUMMER SCHOOL 2024

Join thousands of other mission-minded Christians for a great week of Bible teaching and encouragement in Katoomba from 6-12 January 2024. Register at nswsummerschool.org.au

TOYS AND TUCKER

Together, we can share the joy with thousands of families this Christmas through Anglicare’s Toys
n’ Tucker appeal. Simply visit toysntucker.org.au to provide food and gifts for those who would otherwise go without this Christmas.

SUMMER CAMPING AT BURRILL PINES

Join your church friends for a relaxed camping trip at Burrill Pines (near Ulladulla) on the third weekend of 20-21st January and the days before and after as you’re able. Speak to Adrian Nette 0414 193 945 for more details.

MORNING PRAYER

Join us at 7am every day (except Sunday) at zoom.jamberooanglican.com as we gather to read the Bible, pray, and encourage each other as the new day dawns.

DECEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH

Our book of the month is ‘’The Dawn of Redeeming Grace’ by Sinclair Ferguson. Physical copies are available at our bookstall.

GIVING UPDATE

Each week we need to receive $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. For last month, our average weekly giving was $5402.00, leaving a gap of $898.00. Up to the end of last month, we needed to have received $81,900. Compared to that total we received $71,624, leaving a gap of $10,276.

Electronic giving is a great way to give! It helps us prayerfully plan our giving, and then the bank will help us keep that commitment, even when we may be unable to attend. To give by direct transfer then these are the details. Account name: Jamberoo Anglican Church. Account number: 356831. BSB: 032605.

Redeeming Grace

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Over the past week we’ve seen many images of hostages and prisoners being released in Gaza and Israel, and we’ve witnessed great joy as those who were bound up are now set free.

In the midst of this tragic conflict in the Middle East, we can catch a glimpse of what it means to be redeemed and set free by Jesus.

After all, the idea of redemption is one that has always been connected with slavery and captivity, and it speaks of someone paying a price to allow a person to be set free.

The price of the freedom of the hostages in Gaza was the release of Palestinian prisoners and a short cease fire.

Freedom came at a cost… and that purchased redemption from captivity.

So, when we hear about this release from captivity, it should remind us of the redemption by Jesus through his death on the cross.

This is expressed so wonderfully by the Apostle Peter in his first letter:

“For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or silver, which lose their value. It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. God chose him as your ransom long before the world began, but now in these last days he has been revealed for your sake.” (1 Peter 1:18-20)

We needed freedom from the empty life that was unable to save us from captivity to sin.

And so Jesus bought that redemption by the most valuable thing in the universe: his own, precious blood.

As we see the tears of relief and joy on the faces of released captives, let us reflect afresh on our own redemption, and the extraordinary cost that made it possible.

JODIE McNEILL

Coming up this Sunday 3rd December 2023

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This Sunday we are going to be hearing from God’s word as Jodie McNeill continues our series on Malachi called ‘The Message of the King,’ as he looks at chapter two with the title, ‘Be Faithful to the King.’

After our 9 am service we’ll be enjoying brunch together, and after our 4 pm service we’ll be having dinner.

We’d love you to join us in-person if you’re able, or watch our livestream at watch.jamberooanglican.com.

Here are the questions you’ve asked that Jodie plans to answer during church this Sunday:

1 Why does Malachi call God, “the Lord of Heavens’ Armies?”
2 Does God still show favouritism today?
3 In Romans 1:28, what the things they weren’t supposed to do?
4 Will we be happy when Jesus punishes people on Judgement Day?
5 What’s the difference between an Anglican and a Catholic?
6 Can we spread out the chairs a bit more?
7 Can we stop using single use plastic communion cups?

If you’d like to add a question to the list, then send an email or message… there’s still plenty of room for your question!

See you on Sunday, God willing!

Church news for the week beginning Sunday 26th November 2023

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OUR SERMON

This Sunday we’re going to hear the first talk from the new series called ‘The Message of the King’ as Jodie McNeill preaches to us from Malachi Chapter One on the topic, ‘Honour the King.’

CHURCHILL CAROLS

Join us on Christmas Eve for our Churchill Carols on the church lawn. 5pm free sausage sizzle, 6pm all-age carols service, and 7pm summer supper. Keep the evening free for a great night for all!

JAMBEROO COMMUNITY CAROLS

You’re invited to join with the community of Jamberoo on Tuesday 12th December at 6:30-8:30pm at Reid Park. Bring a rug, picnic dinner, and an enthusiasm to share Jesus with Jamberoo and beyond!

CMS SUMMER SCHOOL 2024

Join thousands of other mission-minded Christians for a great week of Bible teaching and encouragement in Katoomba from 6-12 January 2024. Register at nswsummerschool.org.au

TOYS AND TUCKER

Together, we can share the joy with thousands of families this Christmas through Anglicare’s Toys
n’ Tucker appeal. Simply visit toysntucker.org.au to provide food and gifts for those who would otherwise go without this Christmas.

SUMMER CAMPING AT BURRILL PINES

Join your church friends for a relaxed camping trip at Burrill Pines (near Ulladulla) on the third weekend of 20-21st January and the days before and after as you’re able. Speak to Adrian Nette 0414 193 945 for more details.

MORNING PRAYER

Join us at 7am every day (except Sunday) at zoom.jamberooanglican.com as we gather to read the Bible, pray, and encourage each other as the new day dawns.

NOVEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH

Our book of the month is ‘When the Noise Won’t Stop’ by Paul Grimmond. Physical copies are available at our bookstall.

GIVING UPDATE

Each week we need to receive $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. For last month, our average weekly giving was $5402.00, leaving a gap of $898.00. Up to the end of last month, we needed to have received $81,900. Compared to that total we received $71,624, leaving a gap of $10,276.

Electronic giving is a great way to give! It helps us prayerfully plan our giving, and then the bank will help us keep that commitment, even when we may be unable to attend. To give by direct transfer then these are the details. Account name: Jamberoo Anglican Church. Account number: 356831. BSB: 032605.

Coming up this Sunday 26th November 2023

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This Sunday we are going to be hearing from God’s word as Jodie McNeill begins an all-new series on Malachi called ‘The Message of the King,’ as he looks at chapter one and the title, ‘Fear the King.’

After our 9 am service we’ll be enjoying brunch together, and after our 4 pm service we’ll be having dinner.

We’d love you to join us in-person if you’re able, or watch our livestream at watch.jamberooanglican.com.

Here are the questions you’ve asked that Jodie plans to answer during church this Sunday:

1 Why was the NLT right to translate ‘ministry’ as ‘making dinner?’
2 Is it OK to want to do things for God as an act of thanksgiving?
3 How does God feel when a person turns to Christ?

If you’d like to add a question to the list, then send an email or message… there’s still plenty of room for your question!

See you on Sunday, God willing!

Message of the King

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We get messages all the time, especially via SMS, iMessage, WhatsApp or even the good-old fashioned paper and pen!

Most messages are short, simple, and not very special, like “I’ll be 5 mins late,” or “How are you going?,” or perhaps a string of letters like “LOL,” or “IDK.”

But if you received a message from someone really famous and important, then that text would certainly catch your attention.

In the very last book of the Old Testament, there is a special message from the king of the universe, as Malachi, (which means ‘messenger’,) delivers a special word from God.

It’s a pretty hard-hitting message, and even though it was written in a time and a place that was a long way away, it still brings a current kick to all of us who now follow the Lord Jesus Christ as king.

Over the next four weeks we’re going to look at the whole message of Malachi in the following four parts: 1: Fear the King (1:1-14); 2: Be Faithful to the King (2:1-16); 3: Return to the King (2:17-3:15); and 4: Prepare for the King (3:16-4:6).

When you bring these four messages together, we hear God the King telling us to fear him, be faithful to him, to return to him, and to prepare for him.

We’ll be challenged to follow the king, especially as we’re so easily tempted and distracted by the things of the world, which subtly lead us to drift away from the true and living God.

Above all, it’s a message that originally prepared God’s people for the coming of the true king, Jesus Christ, who came to bring judgement and mercy, and to bring healing in his wings.

As we explore this message, we’ll see more about why Christmas is such good news.

JODIE McNEILL